Producer, director, actor. Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee jackson in 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York
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Spike Lee With his Spizike' Mars
Lee came from a proud and intelligent background. His father William James Edward III was a jazz musician, and his mother Jacqueline shelton, a school teacher. His mother dubbed him Spike, due to his tough nature. He
attended school in Morehouse College in Atlanta and developed his film making skills at Clark Atlanta University. After graduating from Morehouse, to go to the Tisch School of Arts graduate film program.Lee enrolled in Morehouse College where he made his first student film,Last Hustle in Brooklyn. He took film courses at Clark Atlanta University and graduated with a Mass Communication from |Morehouse College. He then enrolled in |New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He graduated in 1978 with a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Television.
Lee and his wife, Tonya Lewis, had their first child, daughter Satchel, in December 1994. Spike Lee is a supporter of English Soccer Team Arsenal. Spike Lee's Production company named "40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks has produced over 34 movies since 1983 including some of our Favorites Such as
40 Acres & A Mule
Do the right thing, Mo Betta Blues' ,Malcolm X and many more. In Fort Greene, the place where Lee spent his adolescence, he was beaten nearly to death by his dad, and this had a severe impact on his earlier films. Blake, author of Street Smart: The New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee, writes: “For Spike Lee, Fort Greene functions like the observation tower, as though one could stand atop the column of the Martyrs Monument and look out on other areas of Brooklyn and the rest of New York. Sometimes what he sees and reports can make others, especially black audiences, quite comfortable.”
Brand Collaborated with Jordan to release a shoe celebrating his film company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 20th anniversary and his contribution to the Air Jordan's success called "Air Jordan Spiz'ike"
Producer, director, actor. Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee jackson in 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York
.Lee came from a proud and intelligent background. His father William James Edward III was a jazz musician, and his mother Jacqueline shelton, a school teacher. His mother dubbed him Spike, due to his tough nature. He
attended school in Morehouse College in Atlanta and developed his film making skills at Clark Atlanta University. After graduating from Morehouse, to go to the Tisch School of Arts graduate film program.Lee enrolled in Morehouse College where he made his first student film,Last Hustle in Brooklyn. He took film courses at Clark Atlanta University and graduated with a Mass Communication from |Morehouse College. He then enrolled in |New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He graduated in 1978 with a Master of Fine Arts in Film & Television.
Do the right thing, Mo Betta Blues' ,Malcolm X and many more. In Fort Greene, the place where Lee spent his adolescence, he was beaten nearly to death by his dad, and this had a severe impact on his earlier films. Blake, author of Street Smart: The New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee, writes: “For Spike Lee, Fort Greene functions like the observation tower, as though one could stand atop the column of the Martyrs Monument and look out on other areas of Brooklyn and the rest of New York. Sometimes what he sees and reports can make others, especially black audiences, quite comfortable.”
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nd Collaborated with Jordan to release a shoe celebrating his film company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 20th anniversary and his contribution to the Air Jordan's success called "Air Jordan Spiz'ike"